Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Japanese Legal Education Reform Era
Article from: TDM 4 (2006), in Resolving International Business Disputes by ADR in Asia
Introduction
The current legal education reform in Japan represents a massive exogenous institutional shock. The implementation of this reform thus offers opportunities to advance theory development within the neo-institutional paradigm in sociology and organizational analysis as it represents a case of the wholesale restructuring of an entire organizational field, rather than the mere institutionalization of organizational innovation or the de-institutionalization of existing practices. We propose to examine the teaching of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in Japanese legal education ...